Chance the Rapper apologizes for pro-Kanye tweets after Trump shoutout
We’ve been keeping just as much of an eye as everyone else on this week’s drama involving Kanye West being a little too logged on here at The A.V. Club, but frankly the whole thing has been too exhausting to thoughtfully chronicle every twist and turn, especially after the signed MAGA hats and Trump RTs got involved.
Now it’s Friday, and someone else wants the fuck off of this ride: West’s fellow Chicagoan Chance the Rapper, who waded right into the middle of the shit when he defended West by tweeting, “Black people don’t have to be democrats,” after West’s barrage of pro-Trump dragon energy on Wednesday. Chance, a vocal supporter of former president Barack Obama, apparently did not anticipate the celebrity-obsessed current administration seizing upon his comment, and reacted with understandable horror when Trump gave him a shoutout this morning on Twitter: